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package org.apache.flink.runtime.io.network.buffer;
/**
* Interface of the availability of buffers. Listeners can opt for a one-time only
* notification or to be notified repeatedly.
*/
public interface BufferListener {
/**
* Notification callback if a buffer is recycled and becomes available in buffer pool.
*
* Note: responsibility on recycling the given buffer is transferred to this implementation,
* including any errors that lead to exceptions being thrown!
*
*
BEWARE: since this may be called from outside the thread that relies on
* the listener's logic, any exception that occurs with this handler should be forwarded to the
* responsible thread for handling and otherwise ignored in the processing of this method. The
* buffer pool forwards any {@link Throwable} from here upwards to a potentially unrelated call
* stack!
*
* @param buffer buffer that becomes available in buffer pool.
* @return true if the listener wants to be notified next time.
*/
boolean notifyBufferAvailable(Buffer buffer);
/**
* Notification callback if the buffer provider is destroyed.
*/
void notifyBufferDestroyed();
}